Ian Clements

Ian Clements is a Partner in Dentons' London office and a member of the Trade and Commodity Finance practice group, practicing in Banking and Finance Law. Since qualifying as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2009, he has focused on international structured trade and commodity finance transactions, including the production, transportation, and sale of commodities, as well as receivables financing and invoice discounting transactions.

Mr. Clements acts for banks, borrowers, and commodities trading houses, with particular experience in borrowing base, pre-export, and prepayment structures. Notable matters include representing Deutsche Bank AG as agent and coordinating bank on a US$2 billion secured uncommitted borrowing base facility for the Trafigura group, representing Natixis on a US$751 million secured borrowing base facility for Trafigura Peru S.A.C., and representing Credit Agricole CIB on structured facilities for prepayments to soft commodity producers in Argentina and Brazil.

Ian holds an LLB in Law with European Legal Studies from the University of Durham and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2005), and completed the LPC at The College of Law, London (2007).